Re: Looking for a mentor
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 02:30:10PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Kayven Riese wrote:
> > I have a friend who has incentivized me to implement a very specific
> > addition of an option to the cut command that he says is part of HP Linux
> > and has been standard in the past having to do with condensing white
> > space. He wants me to learn how to contribute to the Debian project
> > officially. I have an extensive academic background in UNIX/C programming
> > but have never been a part of any open source project. I am hoping to
> > connect with a mentor who can facilitate this task for me. Thank you very
> > much in advance to any and all who are of assistance.
>
> My gut feeling is that you would be best served by developing a patch
> for the upstream GNU coreutils. Debian is probably unlikely to accept a
> behavior changing patch that hasn't been suggested upstream. That way,
> all distributions would remain consistent with each other.
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